Blue Endzones at The Big House?

Was just thinking about this today watching a replay of the 2008 Capital One Bowl. The look of the blue Michigan endzone was outstanding. What would you think if Michigan decided to do blue endzone backgrounds with "MICHIGAN" in the same Maize lettering as there is now instead of the current, plain look?

I think it would look pretty sharp. I'm pretty sure it would be the first Navy Blue endzones in the FBS? (EDIT: justingoblue proved me to be horribly wrong)

No, your all wrong, see if we do go with a new endzone design we need to do it throwback style so that we still honor our "tradition" so basically we are going to not take a single aspect of the "tradition" into account save for I guess blue, throw a shit ton of vertical stripes onto it, paint a mascot in one corner, hastag on the other, change our name to Michigon and call it a contemporary take on 100+ years of football. #progressivethinking

Would look especially sharp during Maize-Out games. I'd be concerned with how it would balance with the maize block M at midfield, which bowl games don't have obviously. The current endzone wordmark is in the same maize-with-blue-outline style as the midfield M. Mockup?

...that I've always loved the Rose Bowl endzones. I'm not sure if replicating that at Michigan stadium would dilute the allure for me or not. But in the big picture of things if they decided to paint the endzones blue (or even maize for that matter) I don't think I would object at all.

Well fans, Roger Dorn has done a little redecorating around the ballpark. The outfield walls now look like the yellow pages. And any of you folks having trouble finding a good proctologist, might want to come down here and check out the area around the 375 foot sign. As for the game, we've got a real nailbiter here tonight. It's a lot closer than that 11-2 score.

I don't see changing the endzones to Blue as a gimmick. Pretty much the entire B1G has colored endzones, as does the SEC, Big 12 etc.

Brandon wants as many home games as he can get. I think it will be a really long time before we see Michigan play another neutral regular season site game. The last one before the Cowboys Classic was in 1950 against army at Yankee Stadium.

Alright look. In my more honest moments I will admit that painting the end zones blue isn't the kind of thing where I feel good about myself in being a get-off-my-lawner. It's a minor thing and kind of silly to get worked up about. But the fact that it's a minor thing makes it a gimmick. Period. It doesn't do anything but sit there and look different. And change for the sake of change is stupid. As is "everyone else does it so we should too."

P.S. if you think Brandon isn't down with the neutral site games any more, you've missed out on the whole UConn saga.

I think they should look exactly like this picture, including the permanent image of AC in the endzone. (The Indiana player splayed out in a futile attempt to stop AC would be kind cool too. Go ahead and throw that in there as well.)

Woohoo! The manifest destiny of cost-benefit analyses!!! Yea! Let's change everything! Let's replace the Michigan Stadium flood lights with black lights, body paint all the players as Maori tribesmen with phosphorescent paint, and play half-field night games while Thievery Corporation rents out the south endzone for a rave! Is there any way to rent pandas on leashes; I feel like this would be superior yet with three pandas on six leashes.

Having gone off the deep end, please allow me to come back. Nothing makes a young fellow feel older than the realization that whereas he used to mock those who resisted change, he joined them before he had the sense to notice. Listen, I have no interest in watching Michigan stand shin deep in stagnancy while competitors pass it by. I care deeply about our success and wish to capitalize on every competitive advantage. But our institution, this football program, is itself a natural advantage. I admit, in some ways, Michigan may need to change. Further, I admit it's difficult to tease out that which is best off unchanging versus that which is best off changing. But concrete signs exist to separate the change-worthy from the unchangeworthy. Pointedly, good change comes with good reason--a story and logic lending a solution. Good change happens never for mere change's sake.

Michigan as a realm of real-life fantasy named football is both strong in brand and rich in character. It doesn't need your sparkle. Blue endzones. Matte-finishes. Canned music. It's just glitter. Please stop the gimmicks. I was born in 1983 and, yet, so as to help balance the extremes in conversations like these, I find myself longing for the era in which the bowl on Stadium & Main held a six-feet-thick residue of suitcoats, bowler hats, and sun dresses. I long for this far more than is reasonable and productive. Help me help myself, which i promise will help you too. Please quit this nonsense. This isn't simply directed at the O.P. This is directed at every purveyor of a new idea designed--not to address some fault, but--to make some classic something "POP!"

It's not that hard to compromise y'all. Let the old guard have their tradition 10 out of 12 games and allow the creative people to do their thing the other two. Everyone is happy. This stuff sells. It sells for the U. It sells to recruits. I'm not saying to go crazy like Maryland did a couple years ago...just liven things up twice a year fir God sakes!!!

Definition of tradition: The way you think things have always been, or the way things were when Lloyd Carr was the coach.

It is kinda silly sometimes how much fans cite tradition to resist change, when there have been changes before.

The jersey's have changed over time.

The helmets have changed over time.

The field has had grass, astro turf, and field turf.

The endzones had different lettering.

Tyrone Butterfield wore #1.

Times change, and if you don't adapt then you get left behind. You need to be allowed to experiment. There will be failures, but there will also be success. If you can't deal with failure then you don't deserve success.

Thank you. Sometimes people here seem to get so worked up over stupid, inconsequencetial things. I think the bowl unifroms are ugly too, I think if putting blue in the endzones would be ugly too, but at the end of the day I don't really care. I enjoy watching Michigan football with Michigan players, and if they so happen to be wearing ugly uniforms on an ugly field, I really won't be to bothered about it.

The kid couldn't hold onto the ball. All I knew about him in '94 was that he was from Florida and wore #1. So I figured that would equal stud. How wrong I was. But thanks for that "drop" against Virginia!

I don't care if we wear maize n blue tutu's. I want wins. Winning is all that matters. Stay traditional and win - OK. Change to all the goofy uni's and win - OK. The tradition of winning and staying the team with the most wins in college football is the tradition I care most about.